Schaller Quotes

#1. The psychologist Mark Schaller has shown that disgust is part of what he calls the "behavioral immune system" - a set of cognitive modules that are triggered by signs of infection or disease in other people and that make you want to get away from those people.40

Jonathan Haidt

#2. Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

George Schaller

#3. A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

George Schaller

#4. There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

George Schaller

#5. You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.

Sebastian Copeland

#6. The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

Lyle E. Schaller

#7. You know what the worst part about my drinking is? When I'm drunk I slur. You know, like I say racial slurs. Wow, nobody likes that at a barbeque.

Amy Schumer

#8. The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.

Lyle E. Schaller

#9. I hate it when people don't spend the night.

Amanda Palmer

#10. My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain curiosity, a certain wonder about the natural world. I like to be outdoors.

George Schaller

#11. Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

George Schaller

#12. Past a certain age, one lives in memories instead of dreams. I

Eric Schaller

#13. In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

Lyle E. Schaller

#14. Met with Jim Watt. He's taking a lot of abuse from environmental extremists but he's absolutely right. People are ecology too and they cant forage for food and live in caves.

Ronald Reagan

#15. When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Anthony Kiedis

#16. To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

George Schaller

#17. For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.

George Schaller

#18. You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

George Schaller

#19. The neutralizer to fear is self belief.

Mark Bouris